I feel like it could be a good thing, more new content to interact with and see. I'm hopeful that new communities will sprout that are completely unrelated from any reddit counterparts.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
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I feel that the majority of the toxicity will be left on reddit, but the good guys will surely come
I want more people.to.use federated social media. Lemmy and kbin are among the best federated social media they just need more users and content.
Only been here for a couple of years and haven't yet gotten a feel for the platform. I hope Lemmy can handle the traffic spikes, I've already seen tildes.net go down lately.
I'm excited to see new communities, more communities, more participation. I'm dreading the inevitable periodic and maybe frequent drops of servers as they struggle to cope with the influx and admins learn how to scale.
EDIT: oh shit, my eyes just skipped right over the whole of "before" in the title
I fired up my own personal test instance so I can experiment with figuring out ways to reduce bottlenecks on the sysadmin/devops side - used to run the various PHP forums back in the day, so hoping to pass on some knowledge eventually.
I figure the toxic side(s) will gravitate towards instances that will tolerate their behaviour which is easier to deal with. Mods will be busy for a little bit though, and I wouldn't be surprised if registrations closed for a bit on some of the bigger instances so they can catch up if they don't just fall flat over on the heavy days. But, lots of smart folks trying to prep for this.
Any idea what hardware specs you need to run an instance? Like for 100 users, 1.000, 10k etc?
Or the hardware lemmy.ml runs on and the userbase?
@Valmond@lemmy.ml according to this comment
The site currently runs on the biggest VPS which is available on OVH
So that's 8 vCore and between 8-32GB RAM
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I'm from Reddit. I do shower regularly, so, I promise I'm not toxic.
I'm just happy to see more users and more activity. I admin an instance, so I'm not too worried about toxicty, as I can dump any regular sources of trouble
I am pretty happy about it. There's nothing wrong with more users!!
I'm excited, but at the same time worried about the technical side of things. How the load can/will be managed, what can we do to help, etc.